Fox Movie Channel has changed format

Q When and to what degree has the Fox Movie Channel begun editing its movies (all Fox films, of course) for language and inserting commercials?

In the 1980s, the one movie channel I could get in the apartment building I lived in then was AMC, when Bob Dorian and Nick Clooney hosted commercial-free movies.

I hated what happened to AMC when it dumped the mature hosts (especially Dorian) and loaded its films with ads and dopey comments by young "movie fans" (later mercifully dumped). I haven't watched a movie on AMC in many years.

But Fox's transition caught me by surprise.

I hadn't seen "Crash" since it was in theaters and had always intended to watch it a second time. I DVR'd it from Fox Movie Channel recently. As I began to rewatch it, I noticed the lip movements were out of sync with a soundtrack that clearly was subbing PG words for rougher ones.

Then, to my astonishment, a cluster of commercials began. I immediately shut it off and played my DVD copy instead.

But then I went back to Fox and DVR'd three movies in the next 24 hours just to speed-check them for commercials. Strangely, two of the three contained commercials, and the third -- a short, old, minor Western -- didn't.

Can you shed any light on this?

A Evidently the format changed on Jan. 1, when the network became FX Movie Channel from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. and remained Fox Movie Channel from 2 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily.

FX Movie Channel has more contemporary movies and limited commercial interruption. Fox Movie Channel maintains the network's library of older films, some with commercials and some without.

As for the dubbing of rougher language, that's a result of adding advertisements. Many advertisers don't want to have their spots in programming with profanity, so the films are edited to be more "advertiser friendly."

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